Saturday, November 23, 2013

Tehelka & The Beast From Hell

(This
is a Maxipost)

I have maintained over a thousand times:
The Indian MSM is the first line of
defence for the corrupt. Many TV personalities posing as journalists or
panellists still don’t know the IPC and what it entails. Under IPC a crime is a
crime against the State and not just
an individual or a group. Even in a rape case it is always State Vs XYZ, not Nirbhaya Vs Accused. Of course, the individual is
also fully entitled to file a separate case if s/he desires. So on what basis
some morons on TV claim Tarun Tejpal
is an “internal matter” or the woman
has to complain is only something Don Quixote can explain. It doesn’t matter if
it happened in a public or private place. Once it comes to their notice and
knowledge, the police have to act if they see prima facie cause. And that is that! I am not NDTV but
wherever you read the words rape and molestation do prefix “alleged” for the benefit of the beast;
umm… the ‘other version’ as it is
now being touted. For want of a name I will simply call the victim as “V” in this post.

THE
IRONY:

In the opening scene there is an
introduction of two. One is the taxi, which moves in like a ‘beast from hell’ and the other is a
psycho, a ticking time-bomb. The end is a bloodbath. In the words of legendary
movie critic, the late Roger Ebert:
"Taxi Driver" shouldn't be taken as a New
York film; it's not about a city but about the weathers of a man's soul, and
out of all NY he selects just those elements that feed and reinforce his
obsessions. The man is Travis Bickle, ex-Marine, veteran of Vietnam, composer
of dutiful anniversary notes to his parents, taxi driver, killer… It's populated with women he cannot have…Taxi
Driver is a hell, from the opening shot of a cab emerging from stygian clouds
of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks
straight down”. Shoma Chaudhary (SC)
eulogised Taxi Driver in her chat with Robert De Niro (I wonder why he was even
there in the first place at THINK2013 because it’s very unlike him). In Desperate Measures-7 I asked if Tehelka can say about itself “It’s clean… it’s real clean, like my conscience”. Let’s watch
(Video 5.00 mins):

It’s populated with women who reject
him. Ironically, the psycho doesn’t rape any woman. In a vicious shootout he
kills the pimps and a mafia wiseguy to
save a 12-year old child prostitute (Jodie Foster). Ironically, Tarun
Tejpal and Tehelka shot to fame using prostitutes for their stings or
entrapments. Ironically, the rape incident reportedly happened in the lift of the
Grand Hyatt hotel after escorting Robert De Niro to his room. Ironically, the
woman was young enough to be Tejpal’s daughter. He should have been protecting
her; instead he treated her like a prostitute and became the beast. TT, SC and
Tehelka learned nothing from the movie and the actor they so eulogised at
THINK2013.

A
SUMMARY OF THE RAPE AT FINK2013:

A fink is a contemptible person. The
THINK2013 was held at Goa, November 8 to 10. Understandably, the host team would
have reached a few days earlier and the rape appears to have happened first on
the night of November 7 and then a second time during the days of the event.
Read a blow by blow account at DelhiDurbar. The morons hosting these slimy fests are so-called “Fiberals”.
Swapan Dasgupta is quoted as saying on TV that the hosts announced on stage “Go sleep with anyone”. The incident would have been known to SC and her
colleagues at Tehelka. Apparently, Shoma didn’t act for a while forcing the V
to write a strong note to her. Following this, the gracious TT apologised and
decided to “atone” with the 6-month exile from the office. Probably in Swaziland? Scoundrel Shoma’s first response was this
was an “internal matter” and she
even rapped Indian Express by
stating: “I don’t know how this concerns you…I don’t
think you can ask me these questions.”

Disturbed and traumatised, V also writes
to her close friend on one of the nights of FINK2013. This is a very special
friend. Seems this friend works for a Southern Commie newspaper and is posted far
far away from Goa or Delhi. Friend doesn’t help or raise an alarm or furore.
Instead, this friend continues to joke on Twitter as if nothing happened and
life was normal. If rape is usually
committed by close friends or relatives, the cover-up is also usually by close
friends and relatives. After 13 days the exchanges get in to the public
domain and emails by TT and Shoma were posted online. A day of self-righteous mourning followed. Shoma touted how she
took action to demand an unconditional apology from TT and for him to step
aside. This is the mother of all moronery. Shoma’s own tweet should tell you
where she really belongs; IN HELL!
Things got out of hand and to another group of journalists Shoma asked “Are you the aggrieved party”? These are the morons who
pry into others’ bedrooms and offices and cry for terrorists like Ishrat Jehan.
Was Shoma the aggrieved party in any of those? Worse was to come. Another friend of V also
spoke to NDTV over phone on November 20. Listen to the audio (3.45 mins, excuse
the disturbances in some places):

HYPOCRITES
& THE COVER UP:

If a ‘Broken Window” is not fixed, a bigger crime is just around
the corner. If the scumbaginis at NDTV had made a hue and cry of the SunetraC sexual abuse case, it
may have prevented this TT and probably other incidents. It’s an incestuous
club as many call it. Take a look at this happy gathering.

I have no doubts whatsoever that the TT
incident had travelled to all the media celebs immediately after it happened.
Barkha, Rajdeep, Sagarika, Ashutosh, Vir Sanghvi, Nidhi ‘Larger’ Razdan etc.
would have all known about it. Their response? SILENCE! And some of these are women who pretend to be champions of
women’s causes. Some will probably end up in hell as Shoma’s quoted tweet
suggests. On November 22 Shoma changed track and claimed there’s the “other
version” which hasn’t been put out. Really? So all the “atonement” and “self-exile”
was a teen-drama? The other version:
“It says that the truth is that out of an attempt to
preserve the girl's dignity and on "Shoma's adamantine feminist-principle
insistence" that he keep correct form by apologising, he did so. But, he
says, the girl's version is a total lie, as the CCTV footage will establish.
According to him it was a less than a minute long fleeting, totally consensual
encounter in the lift of a two-storey building”.

The U-turns and cover-ups started after
the Goa police registered an FIR. It was no more an “internal matter” as Shoma
so proudly claimed. It was now a State matter and a State crime, as it should
be. So now, a case of molestation and rape is being turned into an “under-a-minute consensual” sex. I
wonder if it is 1-minute of both occasions combined or just one. Even Maggi
noodles take longer (without any torture or molestation). Here’s more hypocrisy
in tweets:

If you read the first tweet of Rajdeep 3
months later you wouldn’t even know what issue he was talking about. Such was
the general nature of his lament. He was unwilling to name TT. Ditto Sagarika,
whose heart seems to be on TT’s side and not with V. The moronery and hypocrisy
of Shoma is there now for everyone to see. She is now behaving as if she is a
bigger victim than the traumatised V herself. ‘Shomless’ hypocrites! The biggest hypocrisy comes from none other
than a hate-monger and pseudo-atheist. The pathetic Javed “Saab”:

This Javed is the same pathetic moron
who wanted a police woman punished severely because she wrote a stinging,
sarcastic poem over the Azad Maidan incident where police-women were molested
by goons. Write poem –Punish! Rape by a
friend – His penitence because of impeccable values is enough. Like I
tweeted, it’s not TT’s but Javed “Saab’s” real values that stood thoroughly
exposed. Battered by the responses he did withdraw and delete his tweet. Others
like scumbags Vinod Mehta and
Jaipur Litterfest organiser Sanjoy Roy didn’t spare any efforts to vouch for
the great character of TT. Yeah, the same TT whose own daughter had stated he
had molested women before too.

THE
RESURRECTION OF TEHELKA: “FOLLOW THE MONEY”:

We have had scores of NGOs, Cottage
Industries and media houses funded to create “monsters”. Haven’t we? Remember,
for all the screaming about their care for women, their upliftment and blah,
blah neither Sonia Gandhi nor Rahul Gandhi had anything to say about
the Nirbhaya disaster in December 2012 till very late. The PM woke up after a
deep slumber to finish with “Theek Hai”.
They don’t have anything to say now when one of their “Doormats” is found to be
a rapist. My admirers at Firstpost
quote a tweet and an article of mine where I’ve called Tehelka a “Congress Doormat”. I stand by it and
still call them that because TT and Tehelka are protected by Sonia Gandhi and
the Congress. This is why many believe TT will get away and the case will be
drowned. After all, we do have even former SC judges being involved in sexual
harassment allegations. That is how badly our democracy has been destroyed.

The Congress will do all it can to
extricate TT out this mess duly supported by criminal cronies in the media. The
Tehelka story is not just about this rape incident but about how a crony was
resurrected and came into extraordinary wealth. That is the story no media
house will ever tell you. They won’t tell you because most of them are infested
with molesters and rapists. They won’t tell you because most of them are
corrupt and many media celebs have built their fortunes through corruption,
money laundering and govt doles.

If you have not read “The fearless extortionists” so
far I urge you to read it. When I call the media a “mafia” there is a good
reason for it. Tehelka is part of that mafia. The smooth talking Shoma who till
the other day lectured everyone on morals on NDTV and CNN-IBN has now shown the
world what morals she possesses. Tehelka was the first to use prostitutes to
entrap people. Amazing, Tehelka came into existence around 2000 and since then
their constant and only target has been BJP and Modi. Their harshest criticism
of Congress or Sonia Gandhi amounted to tickling a baby’s cheeks with a
feather. In his “atonement”
email the slimy TT writes: “Tehelka has been born and
built, day on day, with my blood, toil, tears and sweat, and that of many
others, against near-insurmountable odds”. Travis Bickle who drove the
worst scumbags around New York says “Sometimes I have to
clean the cum and blood off the back seat”. What exactly were Tehelka’s
blood, sweat and toil? Here’s the answer:

One of the first things that the
Congress did after they came to power in 2004 was Sonia Gandhi extricating
Tehelka from all cases against them. She wrote to the PM and his response with “Respected, Srimati, Gandhiji”is shown above. It was just about a month
since Congress came to power; such was the hurry to reward the doormat. Every
crony media house that has been a doormat of the Congress has been helped
beyond limits by the party. I am not bothered that any cases against Tehelka
were withdrawn because govts are known to subdue media houses with frivolous
court cases. The question is how did
Tehelka get so wealthy? Who owns them? Who funds them? How does such a
trash-can rag which sells no more than 5786 pieces of an edition according to
my estimate make so much money? An ET article which woke up after this rape incident tries to trace the
funding of Tehelka but to no avail and not much success. The article says they
have accumulated losses of over 26 crores and I estimate maybe even more. It’s
a very frightening maze. “Follow the money”
said Deep Throat and that will explain the corrupt media mafia.

Since the Congress came to power media
houses have been lavished with doles from PSUs and many disproportionate advertisements.
You have to read how HT Summit
educates you on leadership with your own money. Tehelka and TT have acquired
real estate and even arm-twisted the former Goa CM to fund their THINK, KINK
and FINK events. That’s the blood and toil of TT. Imagine, the Congress being
the Congotri of corruption and scams, not one single media house, not even
Tehelka, has managed to pull one sting on it. The only one to be trapped was
Pawan Bansal owing to a vengeful CBI director.

“We
have the power” they sort of tell everyone. “We can screw you” they seem to imply. A journalist who has learnt
to swim with these sharks, Swapan Dasgupta, observes (last line on the page): “Of
course I am ignoring the gush-gushness of the TV groups who were beneficiaries
of a Rs 400-crore bailout package by the Financial Institutions last week”.
That was just a few days before the May 2009 elections. We are approaching another
season of elections. You think Tehelka and TT won’t be bailed out? Do you feel lucky? After all, this
pathetic rag claims to pay you for speaking the truth. They pay women to rape them too?

THE
BEAST FROM HELL:

As he sees the decay and filth on the
streets and around him while driving the beast all night, Travis Bickle makes a
mental note of it:

All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers,
queens, fairies, dopers, junkies. SICK, VENAL! Someday a real rain will come
and wash all this scum off the streets.

I have used that dialogue often to
describe nightly fake debates on TV. Most media house parties, media events are
an invitation to some form of sexual harassment or a small orgy in some small
corner. Let me say, though, that there are honourable exceptions too. But even on
TV most editors have admitted that these beasts from hell are in their offices
and in all their events. And these
beasts are a protected species.

40 comments
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Stunning and thought provoking. Only thing I can add to this hard hitting eye opener is WAKE UP INDIA...clean up the rot,get nationalist spirit which was broken by all invaders than some like Congresses!

You missed an important statement from TT in THiNK2011: "You're in Goa, so eat, drink, make merry and sleep with whoever you want." Source: http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/tejpal-s-2011-casual-sex-remark-in-goa-haunting-him-113112200474_1.html

Now even a toddler can understand where the "lapse of Judgement" happened.

This Tejpal is turning out to be a much uglier monster than it appeared a few days back. I had earlier speculated that he might be in the habit of trying his luck on every new young female entrant to Tehelka ... which is now confirmed by none other than his own daughter. (His daughter reportedly replied to the latest victim when she reported Tejpal's rape attempt - "Yeah, when I was 13 yr old, I have seen him trying to put his hands under the panties of a woman and lick her face and I am not surprised")

And now it is beyond doubt that Shoma has always been an arranger for all such 'consensual liaisons' ... the fact that Tejpal has used this word indicates that "liaison" was their code word for these adventures ... which of course were no adventure but outright rapes.

A few days back Aurn Jaitley said that a serial rapist was loose in Goa implying this Tejpal guy. I dismissed it as just another opposition hyperbole, though I am aware that Jaitley rarely says anything undefendable ... turns out Jaitley knew what he was talking about ... I feel since BJP has a lot of axe to grind with Tehelka, they had done their research very well on each and every move of Tejpal and Tehelka ... and were just waiting for a chance. The hubristic Tejpal did them a great favour by his latest rape.

It also turns out that Tejpal is a very close nephew of Kapil Sibal. Tejpal's mom and Sibal are real siblings. Even in the past, Tejpal has been rescued several times by Congress's interference.

At this point it difficlut to really pin down the ownership of Tehelka but it is very very likely that the troika of Sibal+Manish+Jairam will not be far behind in this web of ownership ... and that really explains their utter silence in this issue as well as that of a lot of voluble editors of several media outlets. In all probability they are thinking about saving Tejpal as well as to obfuscate the ownership even more so that no one traces their names. Besides, Tejpal probably is too much in possession of some incendiary material about his maternal uncle Sibal ... the threat of police enquiry in a BJP ruled state scares them no end. That is why minister of state RPN singh is now exploring options to takeover this case from Goa police.

There is far FAR more to this case than meets the eye ...

Tejpal is not any ordinary rapist ... in all probability he also 'arranged' for such sexual escapades for his mentors in Congress party. too many freshly recruited young female reporters employed by Tehelka probably ended up in beds of all these people involved ... including several editors and mentors in Congress ... That is the only possible explanation for the deep hush in Congress. In fact the silence in Congress is so deep that they are not even commenting anything about any issue ... The NCW chairperson who till yesterday was burning TV screens has vanished. No one is saying anything ... it only indicates a war footing effort of cover up and saving their own skin ... at this point they will not even think about political rivals and elections .. now is the time to avoid a jail term ... they all fear being branded a rapist.

And now I urge you to watch the interview of Shoma with Rajdeep once again ... it is very very clear that she is trying to save the skin of someone far more powerful than Tejpal. After this knowledge, you will not be able to see anything else in her effort ... and the deep scare that Rajdeep has on his face also betrays his emotions. Draw your own conclusions.

There is some one who really expose the media and hit them where it hurt the most. Love you article regarding media crooks. The factual presentation is brough which either media distort or suppress the truth. Hats Off to you.

Many in the media and outside knew about the dubious character of Tejpal & how Tehelka survives but since the dynasty was & is backing them they were left untouched. Now a brave young girl has opened the can of worms unexpectedly and the dynasty faithful's are running helter skelter. The way the Nehru Dynasty TV functions is no different from Tehelka and since they are the voice of the dynasty everything is brushed under the carpet. Waiting for the day when someone will be brave enough and strong enough to lift the carpet and expose what's been hidden underneath for so long. Like Tehelka this organisation also has huge accumulated losses and has not reported a profit since its inception and yet they survive and spend lavishly, none of us can question their finances that's how it is. The media more than 90% of which survives on the dynasty doles is pretty scarred rather s*it scarred about the prospect of Modi becoming the PM rather than the BJP coming to power. They can manage the BJP like they did upto 2004 but this Modi is turning out to be their worst nightmare. Media houses know that If he becomes the PM many of them will have to shut shop and the luxurious life they are enjoying at the tax payers expense will vanish, for them that's the scariest thing that could happen. That's why we keep seeing day in and day out the fabricated stings or digging out some old mundane files on him and try to stop him in his tracks. So for they have failed but till May-2014 Modi will have to survive many an attempts not only from the dynasty but from the dynasty backers. Only one of them is down now fighting for its own survival the rest will keep trying till the judgement day.

Namo's "Khooni Panja" remarks which has received the flak of Khangress and ire of EC should be thought out in perspective. It was the same place where the NIA has found out the hand of Khangress insiders in the Maoist massacre of Karma and other congis!! Namo is and was not a fool to make such remarks elsewhere at all.

All said and done, these facts and figures do not reach the common man,and remain the gossip of middle class drawing rooms. What we need is a bipartisan and unbiased news and TV channel to expose these scoundrels to the common man on the street. Wonder why the BJP does not have a dedicated News paper and TV channel

I am happy that this beach got exposed. I really hated her emotion-cum-hate spewing rhetoric on Gujarat and violence related to women. Even a cursory reading of her much diatribes could be found for serious lack of facts and comprehension.

Not just that, she seemed to be in the total know of how the Tehelka is funded, corporate way where congress helps in permits and licenses for a corporate group where in quid-pro-quo they help fund the Tehelka.

Her selective outrage which is spewed in articles is sold to the highest bidder especially the congress ones. In any case, her position on the left of centre is helpful with rhetoric and blind emotions unlike with more analyzing position taken by the centre right.

Her case on the ishrat jahan was even amusing, she went about (with Rana, the other journalist) day after day invoking minute details about the life of ishrat which is ofcourse not connected with terror in any way. She would speak of her dreams, ideas (like talking about the dreams and ideas of osama'ji'). she then would let Rana interview their parents and flaunt as though it is the real truth. No mention of the Headley's confession or IB alerts. Only outrage of the death, what is funny is she didn't even speak about her terror collegues. Most of the readers would be bewitched to believe Gujarat is the only state with encounters(which other states have even more and Gujarat among few).Again, the beach deserved what she propounded for others and I can only glee to see her suffer.PS:Forgive my transgression for calling them bitches, but when Ravinar told me how these people are the most dangerous, I never believed. Now it seems the intensity has dawned on me.

Another nice article but it would had being more interesting article if you would have wrote how media tried to link the rape with snoop gate or tried connecting Goa government's swift against TT with the hate relationship between Tehelka and BJP.

Dear Ravinar,This is a devastating piece on so many levels. But what it devastates most is the final hope we humans cling to - that come what may, someone will stand by us, and that someone would be the person who we love and trust more than our life. People don't mind betrayal by strangers or acquaintances. What devastates is the betrayal by the loved ones. When you say: "If rape is usually committed by close friends or relatives, the cover-up is also usually by close friends and relatives," is painful in the extreme to hear. But it is also true. And that is why, I feel, that "V" is the bravest of the brave, for she has not only withstood a brutal assault, she has also withstood betrayal.Thank you for this article.Anand Ranganathan

You think their goose is being cooked finally? Or this is just one more storm in their tea cups? More we learn of these crooks, more need we feel of bringing in new rulers,new regimes and new ways of dispensing news.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tarun-tejpal-the-friend-i-can-no-longer-recognise/435738-3-253.htmlRead this from a friend of TT. Everyone is bailing...:)"The biggest story that Tehelka had was killed and "monetised". That corporate is the main sponsor of Think fest. ""The magazine is funded by a Trinamool MP who is also India's Chicken King."

He must be a habitual offender terrorizing female colleagues by virtue of his position in Tehelka. The weak keep quiet. But this will not work for long. There will be one odd woman in the quiet queue that will explode like a bomb. It's only a matter of time and it happened.

I would like to add on observation. Sagarika Ghosh tweet "Powerful Men vs Powerless young women" she has put in her comment #Tehelka to #saheb. #Tehelka tag is for misdeed of her own Media biradari (बिरादरी) while #Saheb is alleged by the same criminal mafia biradari on NaMo who is in politics and has earned high respect among masses through his hard work. Here also she wants brush everything with the same color.

Politics apart,every rape(new nomenclature is 'incident") every molestation by the ordinary or the high and mighty proves over and over again that man is an insignificant slave of nature.The ugly head of natural urge rises again and again reminding man that he is just another animal.Today it is TT, tommorrow it can be anyone, i mean "anyone".So let us get real and play safe.

Nice.. For a change, I agree with every word-- except the expletives used to describe people. Now, let us see you similarly outraged and demand criminal action by Gujarat police in Snoopgate whether or not there is any complainant.

It is not Snoopgate, but Stoopgate - an indicator to the lowest levels that the Congress party and the decidedly evil first family will stoop to in a bid to stay in power. Why is the Congress and more importantly, the first family, so scared? Because the vile family knows that in the annals of Indian history the darkest chapters will read as "Nehru & Fake Gandhi Dynasty 1947-2014".

@alok, it became fashion to pose as impartial..But often the impartiality only comes out when the crooks are caught red handed. Tehelka and co `destroyed' many people by so called `unearthing scandals' just to save their master i.e., congress. It seems you are also doing the same. Here we are talking about the crime committed by a person with `impeccable values'(as per Javed Akhtar). So stick to the issue. More over, Gujarat Govt constituted a two member committee to inquire the issue.

There was one well writtten article on this written by Ravishanker in Sunday Indian express under the heading" The fall of the media crusader". he summed up beautifully how a small time press tout made it big and even owns an entire village in Goa.

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